One More Time in 2009...

...I feel the need to post it, you see, there are all these little children; millions and millions of them, world wide; each with a name, each with a face. Tonight on New Years, maybe think about a resolution to help them in any way you can, whether it be prayers, advocation, funding for their adoptions or even to bring one home...

One more time in 2009 I feel the need to post these kids pictures. Understanding that this blog is for all kids needing a home; these few here following -like so many others in their exact situation- will be institutionalized soon after they turn only four years old simply because they have some sort of disability, into places, where the workers at those places say for themselves, that are not fit for animals to live in. Clicking on the names below will take you to blog entries with more info and in some cases pictures of these children. One more time in 2009, it is my honor to introduce to you:

Ian, Martin, Mindy and Wallace - 4 little angels set to be transfered next month I think to an institution that they cannot be adopted from.

Dimitry, a sweet little boy whom is blind whom is said to have just turned four this past December.

This little girl, Mara, whom I am trying very hard to find a family for - you will see her picture posted in the sidebar of my blog, is ten. She needs you now and is blessed to be able to teach us so much through her Aperts Syndrome Condition; she is beautiful, and needs real love. Please, please someone think about saving Mara. There are plenty of labels on this blog that lead to entries about her, if you are looking for Aperts Syndrome Adoption, could she be your child?

Then there are all these children in the following video.

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Thank you, everyone, so much whom reads this blog. I am not at all condemning anyone here or trying for guilt, some people cannot adopt, I know, because am one of them. But I can speak out for these kids. Please think about them, pass word on, when and where you can or even bring one of these kiddos home, if you can. One more time in 2009, these are the faces of the red thread kids. Happy New Years Everyone, and God Bless.

"In you the orphan finds mercy."

Hosea 14:3

Here he is...

...at Christmas, my adorable little nephew with his firetruck blanket his grandma got him! He's three and a half months old now, time does fly. He's gotten so big! Look at the difference in this picture and the one taken at the hospital when he was only two hours old! Merry First Christmas Mikey!

Love, Aunt Deb.

PS: Two weeks and counting until Baby Miracle is born, adoring mom and dad have chosen to name her Jasmine.

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

"We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor,

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

- Virginia O'Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."



Merry Christmas Everyone, everywhere tonight. Peace to those of you and your families, comfort and love to those away from their homes. Despite what some try to say, Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, and you are never alone.

Best Wishes,

Debrah from theredthreadkids.blogspot.com

Please watch this again....

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Can't you just feel Andrea's heart in this video? Look at the eyes of these children. Think of them, the routine of their daily lives in some places so monotonous they sit in cribs and start to rock? They deserve to know what living can really be, what love is and what a family is. These are actual children. Everyone, they are just kids. Some of the kids in this video are bound for institutions very soon that they cannot be adopted from.

What I am trying to say, Meridith says perfectly in her blog post RIGHT HERE. Thank you, Meridith. Thanks.

Can you believe we abort nearly 90% of American DS kids before they are born even when there are people out there who have their arms open to take them?

Yes, this is the second time I've posted this same video on this blog, but now it is Christmas. Please, do more than read. Please think of taking one of these kids home if you can, if not then please give - if not, then please pray and/or pass word of these children along in any way you can.

It is our responsibility to speak up for and help them, have no doubts.

Happy Holidays Everyone and thank you.

Two Songs for Christmas...

Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_1zjZwl3w


Please click the link and watch the video to the second song too - it wouldn't allow me to embed it here.

I couldn't decide, so I posted both videos, because both are so beautiful and true. I just had to post them. This blog dedicates these two songs this holiday season to all the little angels out there, please pray for them this holiday season, for the orphans and the missing. Little angels, know that God is with you, wherever you are, you are never forgotten, lost or alone. That goes for everyone :).

Merry Christmas to Everyone, Everywhere.
-Debrah.

Passing it On...

I saw this on Mary's Blog [thank you] and thought I would do my part and pass it on. This is amazing - simply, amazing.

What if...

This morning I looked. Mindy, pictured below, could be adopted by a single person. My heart started to pound, I broke out in a cold sweat - what if I saved her? I found myself thinking about going to get her and bringing her to my house.

So I officially began to look into it.

First I went to the Reece's Rainbow page for people thinking of adoption...

I don't meet the income required by like - 300 dollars! *cry* After that it would have been a question of getting health insurance. Ok, I could push for a raise and get that insurance... but it would take months! Miss Mindy doesn't have months. She has like ...5 weeks! Her birthday and I am guessing her imminent transfer is near the end of January!

I was crushed knowing I wouldn't have the time I needed to save her. But for a moment I knew that fierce pounding of - what if... and was seriously going to get her, despite the fear and uncertainty. Let me tell you this much, to seriously allow the thought to enter your head and your heart - is amazing.

Single mommies can go and get this baby, someone. Read the USCIS guidelines HERE. They aren't asking for really rich people either, just financially stable households.

Come on, I know you are out there reading somewhere. You have to be on an adoption blog for some reason as well.

Thanks everyone, have a good evening and take care.

Addendum to the post below this one...

"Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows."

Luke 12:6-7

Think about it...

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These children above are due for imminent and nearly immediate transfer to a institution where they will not ever be able to be adopted from. If you have the family requirements to do so, please do more than just read this and move to the next blog --- clicking THIS LINK, [warning, link leads to disturbing content. I found worse but this is citable enough I think], will show you what they may be bound for --- think about it. This link is just one example and is also watered down version of what they may face. If you can stomach it look at the other related videos you tube provides. If you have the family requirements open your hearts this Christmas and faithfully the funds will follow. One little girl raised over 20,000 in just eight days to bring her sister home from this sort of future. If you can't bring them home like I cannot - please pray and/or pass word about them on. You can buy a cheeseburger for 4.00 or you can save the money every day. Its worth a life, don't you think?

We have to do something. Don't let these children be another Diana. Let Diana's life mean something.

Think of these kiddos and help them somehow today, even if its only passing word about them on. Again, negative comments will be immediately deleted without posting or response. Thank you.

She DOES have a new Family!!

Thank you God! Thank you. God always makes for the best happy tears I think, his plans are so simple to see and so beautiful when its time, even if along the entire way you find yourself wondering why, asking why, and yes - even fighting it sometimes.

Just today I saw sweet Ruslana had been returned to the "At Risk" page at Reece's Rainbow and my heart broke in two. Thanks to a Comment in the entry below my heart skipped a beat and I did a search and found the wonderful news.

I was thinking as I searched that God must have a perfect family for this child if she has gone through four commitments, it goes to show, we are not the ones picking these children, he is. This sweet little girl has been through many other commitments, and the family who has committed to her this time is wonderfully right, those other families to be are such beautiful stepping stones, leading Ruslana on her way and shedding light on these kids.

And here they are. CLICK HERE to meet Ruslana's forever family. They proudly know and say, "She's Ours."

Oh Ruslana..

This is our same little Ruslana listed below - she is back on the rainbow again - for the fourth time having lost her adoptive family.

To say I would adopt her if only I had half a chance sounds so weak -- the truth is I if someone only said yes I would be there in a blink of an eye, find a way to pull this off.

But, and somehow to even write the word 'but' it sounds like an excuse; the matter is out of my hands. The first big roadblock to my having her is simply that I am not married and it is required by her country law. The rest of it, my financial status, etc -- I would find a way to make it work. I would get the money, I would get to her country and get her out of there... ...somehow.

This little girl is now going to have to be adopted from an institutionalized setting; from this point out her very life is in danger and she will regress in anything she has learned.

So my prayer is this, pray for this little girl constantly, day after day that her family comes forward to find her in time, her family... somehow, they have to be somewhere out there needing her as much as she needs them. Pass the prayer on, blog about her, ask everyone you know out there to pray for her. Here is the big question.. is that family you?

CLICK HERE to go to the page she is on on Reece's Rainbow, you will have to scroll down a bit to find her and view her more about her and her contact info.

Mixed Feelings

I have mixed feelings on this topic. I know that when children are removed from their birth parents home it is for their own safety. But I also know that part of the reason for doing this is so the parents involved can try to get their kids back again.

Children are a beautiful gift from God. Sadly, so many are abused or neglected that its heart-shattering to even think of. I am not sure what to write in this post so I will just write whatever makes its way out of my mind to my keyboard.

There is a new girl at work. Her children have been with CPS now for almost a year. I know there are two sides of every story, but the part of the story I hear is that they were taken from her after she failed to pick them up from daycare after her boyfriend at the time beat her senseless in her apartment. In turn, when the police arrived on the scene some drugs were discovered, by her statement, just three 'roaches'. And I realise that drugs are drugs and dangerous no matter in what amount.

That said, she's been working hard to get her kids back and has been drug free for almost that whole year. She's been in parenting classes, classes for addiction and working and meeting all of CPS's requirements. She loves her two boys, I can see in in her face every time she mentions them. I've seen her burst into tears over them over shattered hope that she might have seen them on Thanksgiving.

Like I said, there are two parts of every story. I am sure there is ugly somewhere in this too. I not supporting the idea of raising kids with drugs involved. However, there are no longer drugs involved.

Like I said, I've mixed feelings. She is truly trying here.

Her court date is on the 7'th for custody of them. I guess I am asking for prayers for Gods will to be done for these two kids and this girl. He knows all the secret ugly stuff that I don't and the good stuff too. He knows the situation and what is best. Please pray these kids end up in the right home for them, no matter where that home is.

Mean and hurtful comments will be deleted without posting and hardly even a glance, just a warning, because this is a touchy subject for me.

Take care everyone and thanks.